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Plastic-Free July

As the world observes Plastic-Free July, we’ve gathered events happening in the region. Aliansi Zero Waste Indonesia (AZWI) AZWI lined up several online activities for this month: Sachet video Monthly-comics AZWI Talk Series of infographics Follow their Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn Citizen consumer and civic Action Group (CAG) Join the month-long social media campaign […]

Media Fellowship on Climate – South and East Asia

Exclusive for media practitioners in South Asia and East Asia – get to know the facts on how our climate is changing and how we are currently dealing with the problem. In this fellowship, You’ll learn about climate issues, policies, and conferences; Make the connection between climate, Zero Waste, and waste pickers; climate and the […]

SEA Biodiversity Media Bootcamp

Join our Southeast Asia Biodiversity Media Bootcamp where we bring together journalists, civil society organizations’ communications practitioners, and communications students to achieve the common good: communicating biodiversity conservation within the context of Zero Waste! There are no strenuous military drills here; instead, you will learn: Biodiversity terms and various international biodiversity conventions Environmental issues in Southeast […]

Report Launch | Zero Waste to Zero Emissions: How Reducing Waste is a Climate Gamechanger

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Join us for the launch of our new report Zero Waste to Zero Emissions: How Reducing Waste is a Climate Gamechanger.  The report provides the clearest and most comprehensive evidence to date of how better waste management is critical to the climate fight, while building resilience, creative jobs, and promoting thriving local economies.   We […]

[COP27] Methane from the waste sector: opportunities and challenges to deliver the Global Methane Pledge –

Thutmose (150) Cairo, Egypt

The international community has recognized that reducing methane–a short-lived greenhouse gas over 80 times as potent as CO2– is critical to achieving the Paris Climate Agreement. At last year’s COP, over one hundred countries signed onto the Global Methane Pledge (GMP) to reduce global methane emissions at least 30 percent from 2020 levels by 2030. […]

Event Series [COP27] Zero Waste Hub

[COP27] Zero Waste Hub

Blue Zone Exhibit Space 21 , Egypt

70% of all greenhouse gas emissions comes from making, taking, and wasting stuff, and 20% of methane emissions–a greenhouse gas 80 times as potent as C02–comes from landfills. At the Zero Waste Hub, hosted by Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), COP attendees can learn more about how zero waste strategies like reuse and repair, […]

COP27: Zeroing in on Waste | Exhibit & Events

The events are located within the official conference venue, any person wishing to access the side event area must be duly registered as part of a delegation of a Party or an observer organization and in possession of a conference badge. The link to access the virtual platform for badge-holders will be provided here as […]

Event Series [COP27] Zero Waste Hub

[COP27] Zero Waste Hub

Blue Zone Exhibit Space 21 , Egypt

70% of all greenhouse gas emissions comes from making, taking, and wasting stuff, and 20% of methane emissions–a greenhouse gas 80 times as potent as C02–comes from landfills. At the Zero Waste Hub, hosted by Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), COP attendees can learn more about how zero waste strategies like reuse and repair, […]

[COP27] Press Conference | Waste Critical to Reaching 1.5 Degree Target: CIvil Society Responds to Africa Waste 50 Initiative

Press Conference Room Luxor/2 , Egypt

Waste management will be one of the critical topics tackled at COP27, where host nation Egypt plans to put forward the Africa Waste Initiative, an initiative hoping to catalyse both adaptation and mitigation solutions and  aiming at treating and recycling 50% of the waste produced in Africa by 2050. In this press conference, civil society […]

[COP27] Zero Waste Implementation as a Just and Equitable Approach to Climate Action

Sanafir Hotel

This cross-cutting session will showcase climate solutions and community interventions currently implemented in Africa. These are on the way to putting African countries on the path of decarbonising high-emitting sectors such as waste, oil and gas, cement, and transport. The panel will discuss key enablers to end the repressive behavior of national governments and the […]

Event Series [COP27] Zero Waste Hub

[COP27] Zero Waste Hub

Blue Zone Exhibit Space 21 , Egypt

70% of all greenhouse gas emissions comes from making, taking, and wasting stuff, and 20% of methane emissions–a greenhouse gas 80 times as potent as C02–comes from landfills. At the Zero Waste Hub, hosted by Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), COP attendees can learn more about how zero waste strategies like reuse and repair, […]

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